Stay-wire-applying tool.



Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

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JOHN F. SHELTON, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

STAY-WIRE-APPLYING TOOL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SHELTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas,have invented a Stay-Wire- Erpplying Tool, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a tool for applying stays to the line wires of afence, and the object is to provide a tool which is simple inconstruction and durable and which can be manually operated withfacility and despatch in applying stays to the line wires of a fence.

Another object is to provide a tool which carries enough wire to makeseveral stays and which carries the wire close to the point ofapplication and which is provided with applying devices that are in linewith the wire as it is fed from the tool and which operate at a rightangle to the fence wires and close to the fence wire so that the stayinn be wrapped on the fence wire with great orce.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the followingdescription, and the invention will be more particularly pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which. form a part of thisapplication.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tool in action. Fig. 2 is a plan orend view. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, as seen from the left of Fig. 2.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same partsthroughout the several views.

The tool herein set forth includes a base 2 which has a core 1 integraltherewith. This core serves as a spindle for a coil of wire 8. A segmentof a cylinder constitutes a frame for the tool and a barrel for the coilof wire which is placed about the core 1. The frame 3 is formed integralwith the base 2. The frame 3 with the core and the coil of wire servesas a crank. The arm 4 carries guide lugs 5 and 6 and has a rounded notch7 to receive the line wires of a fence. The arm 1 is pivoted on thefence wire while the tool is revolved about the fence wire to wind thestay 8 on the fence wire. The guide lugs 5 and 6 cooperate with the arm4: to bind the stays on the fence wires. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 11, 1908.

Patented April 6, 1909.

Serial No. 462,014.

lugs 5 and 6 guide the stay wire 8 as it is paid off the core 1, andthey cause the Wire 8 to travel substantially in line from the peripheryof the core 1 to the notch 7.

Attention is called to the fact that the wire is paid out at rightangles to the fence wire and also that the arm a and the lugs 5 and 6(which constitute the stay applying devices) are close to the notch 7 orclose to the point of application. The whole tool is thus used to forcethe wire or bind the stay wire on the fence wire, the arm 4: serving asa lever with a fulcrum in the notch 7. The arm 4: is flush with theouter end of the frame 3 and the core projects beyond the frame.

The wire 8 is formed into coils which will make a plurality of stays. Anew coil is placed on the core 1 as the old coil is used up or paid out.To start a stay on the first fence wire, the end of the wire is placedacross the fence wire adjacent to arm 4, the wire of the fence being inthe notch 7. The end of the wire may be held until the tool is revolvedabout the wire a sufficient number of times to bind the stay on thefence wire. The tool is then carried to the next fence wire and revolvedabout the wire until the stay is securely bound on the fence wire andthen carried to the next fence wire and the operation repeated.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

1. A stay applying tool comprising a frame consisting of a base and asegmental barrel integral therewith, a core within the barrel andintegral with said base for receiving a coil of wire, an arm integralwith the barrel and flush with the top of the barrel and having a notchin the outer end thereof, and guide lugs integral with said arm forguiding the wire from the periphery of said core to said notch.

2. A stay applying tool comprising a frame consisting of a base and asegment of a barrel integral therewith, a core within said segment andintegral with said base and projecting out of said segment, and an armat rightangles to said barrel segment and flush with the outer endthereof and carrying stay applying devices.

3. A stay applying tool comprising a base, a core integral therewith, aframe integral with said base and partly concentric With In testimonywhereof, I set my hand in said core, an arm integral With said frame thepresence of two Witnesses, this seventh and flush With the outer end ofsaid frame day of November, 1908.

and at right angles thereto, and applying JOHN F. SHELTON. devicescarried by said arm for guiding Witnesses: Wire from said core to theline Wires of A. L. JACKSON,

fences. BEN SPRINT.

